Marie Loftus

Here she became known as "The Sarah Bernhardt of the Music Halls" and quickly became a popular performer leading to tours of the United States and South Africa.

While appearing at the Britannia Music Hall in Glasgow in 1894 she bought 150 pairs of boots for the poorest children in the city.

[3] As a pantomime principal boy she wore costumes that enhanced her buxom figure; this was displayed to great effect when Loftus played the title role in Robinson Crusoe at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1889 and 1900, and Sindbad the Sailor in 1895.

[4] Such was her fame that in 1892 Loftus appeared in the popular Theatre Royal, Drury Lane pantomime alongside Marie Lloyd, Ada Blanche, Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell and Mabel Love.

[12] Their daughter, Marie Cecelia Brown (1876-1943), like her mother Glasgow-born, was herself a talented mimic and actress who found fame as Cissie Loftus, appearing on Broadway and the West End of London.